Singapore Armed Forces Act 1972 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 6 · Punishments of Military Offences and Execution of Sentences
119. Punishment for aggravated disciplinary barrack offences
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Subject to subsection (2), a person serving a sentence of special detention in a disciplinary barrack who is found after due inquiry to be guilty of an aggravated disciplinary barrack offence may be punished by the officer or senior military expert in charge of a disciplinary barrack with caning not exceeding 12 strokes.
The officer or senior military expert in charge of a disciplinary barrack must not award any caning without the approval of the Armed Forces Council.
officer
“officer” means a person appointed by the President of Singapore or the proper authority to hold the rank of officer in the Singapore Armed Forces and includes any person commissioned as an officer under any written law that is repealed by this Act;
For the purposes of this section, an aggravated disciplinary barrack offence is —
disciplinary barrack
“disciplinary barrack” means any premises or place set apart by the Armed Forces Council for the purposes of persons serving sentences of special detention in a disciplinary barrack;
mutiny as defined in section 15;
escape or attempt to escape;
striking or otherwise using violence to, or offering violence to, any person superior in rank or on the staff of the disciplinary barrack;
aggravated or repeated assault on any other person serving special detention in a disciplinary barrack;
wilful destruction of Singapore Armed Forces property;
wilfully causing self-illness, self-injury or disability;
wilfully making a false or groundless complaint against any person superior in rank or on the staff of the disciplinary barrack;
repetition of any minor disciplinary barrack offence after having been twice punished for such minor offence;
any other act of gross misconduct or insubordination; or
abetting the commission of any aggravated disciplinary barrack offence.
Minor disciplinary barrack offences are to be prescribed by regulations made under this Act.
When any caning is imposed under this section upon any person serving a sentence of special detention in a disciplinary barrack, the person shall not be liable to more than one such sentence in respect of the act or acts, or omission or omissions, for which the person has been sentenced.